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UK EVALUATION SOCIETY
CONFERENCE 2000
'Evaluation and Social Change:
Policy, Practice and Participation'
The theme of the sixth annual conference of the UK Evaluation Society
encompasses all aspects of evaluation which impinge on social change
processes. Commissioners, practitioners and users of evaluation are invited
to participate and discuss issues such as:
* Eliciting 'theories of change'
* Managing change through evaluation
* Making evaluations matter - experiences of embedding evaluation findings
into organisational decision making
* Evaluation as a Government policy tool
* Squaring participation with impartiality in self evaluation
* Self evaluation as social capital
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Main conference: 7th & 8th December 2000
Church House Conference Centre, Westminster
Keynote speakers will be Professor E R House of the University of Colorado,
Janet Lewis of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Sue Duncan, Centre for
Management & Policy Studies in the Cabinet Office. This year the UKES
conference will include a Reception in the Houses of Parliament hosted by
Malcolm Wickes MP, Under Secretary of State for Lifelong Learning.
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Practitioners' Workshops: 6th December
University College London (UCL)
* 'Pathways to participation: making evaluations more participatory'
* 'Knowing the ropes: developing a set of guidelines for commissioning
evaluations'
* 'Using theory-based approaches to evaluating complex community-based
initiatives'
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Advanced Workshop: 6th December
University College London (UCL)
'Drawing valid conclusions'
led by Professor E R House (University of Colorado)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Commissioners, practitioners and users of evaluation are invited to submit
abstracts for papers, symposia, or round tables that address the conference
theme or any of its sub-themes. Other topics which concern innovative
methods in evaluation and evaluation frameworks will also be considered.
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should be sent
electronically or on disk along with a paper copy to the Conference
Secretariat (address below) to arrive no later than 22nd September. Authors
will be notified by the end of October if their abstract has been accepted.
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PLEASE ADVERTISE this conference by copying this
message to your colleagues.
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FURTHER INFORMATION is available on the UKES website
http://www.evaluation.org.uk, and from:
the UKES Conference 2000 Secretariat:
In Conference Ltd
10b Broughton St Lane
Edinburgh, Scotland
EH1 3LY
Tel: +44 (0)131 556 9245
Fax: +44 (0)131 556 9638
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
OR the UKES office:
PO Box 5356
BRENTWOOD
Essex, England
CM14 4ZJ
Tel: +44 (0)1277 233278
Fax: +44 (0)1277 229095
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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